All this @MakerBot1 Industries #SPAM on http://blog.thingiverse.com/feed/ is annoying.
None of that crap about Makerbot Stores in the US and Makerbot sales and Makerbot products is even remotely related to the Thingiverse site.
They used to be one of many open source companies and it was good that way!
This used to be a site for users sharing designs with each other.
There used to be a “tools” section and designs that where NOT EVEN FOR 3D PRINTERS but for laser cutters and CNC mills and lathes.
There used to be a feature to improve each others useful, multi-part designs. Not to “remix” them by putting a scanned head on another thing.
There used to be designs with assembly instructions and tools required and containing electronics (I’m not talking about Arduino or Raspberry Pi cases) and bearings and bolts.
Is anybody still using thingiverse? It’s been a spam-hole like this for a while now and i personally haven’t really used their service for a good year now.
On a related note, does anybody know how to delete your account? Their TOS state that they have instructions for just that, but i can’t find them anywhere.
I have worked on my machines and other projects lately and not done any new designs.
But I would still upload them to #Thingiverse
with full assembly instructions, BoM,
technical drawings, viewable 3D model in a PDF, photos, renderings and everything.
…and make a Blog posting linking to that.
I’m working on updating my Zoom H4n remote control camera rig handle to the new Zoom H6 and my camera rig handle for Panasonic cameras for one designed for LANC controlled cameras.
Makerbot is no longer a company that supports true makers. I believe that they finally realized that business model wouldn’t work for them. Since they went public, they have a board of directors. It is the boats legal responsibility to make the shareholders’ interests a priority. That means growth and profit. In order to do this, they needed to target the consumer and prosumer market. Thingiverse is now targeted to casual hobbyists who want to do basic things which is great for the masses, but alienates the makers. So I understand why Makerbot went this route, it still irks me that they still command such a large price tag, have awful service, and their design leaves much to be desired from a user and maintenance standpoint.
The more @MakerBot1 turns #Thingiverse into their personal marketing site, the more I have to think if I actually want to support marketing closed source products by publishing my designs there.
Up to now it was just a matter of sharing designs to be refined and made by others among equals.
@ThantiK sorry about that. I just couldn’t find any link section in the G+ Android app. I’ll read through the community info a few more times and then try out YouMagine.
Sadly Thingiverse is still by far the most active site with printable objects. Agreed there’s a lot of bad stuff, but also many great things uploaded regularly.
Meanwhile there is a new alternative coming out almost every week… Ensuring none of the existing ones will ever take hold. It must be extremely frustrating to the people who designed and maintain these sites (YouMagine, Cubehero and others).
I use Thingiverse all the time. I still like the idea of alternatives. Like some of google’s own sites, the searching ability sucks and gets alot of false matches (ironic, isn’t it?) but that is about par for the course.